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And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.

His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world because of lust, and may become participants of the divine nature.

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of his majesty.

(for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by their lawless deeds that he saw and heard),

but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since our ancestors died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation!"

The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

But, in accordance with his promise, we wait for new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness is at home.

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

we declare to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

but if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Now by this we may be sure that we know him, if we obey his commandments.

Whoever says, "I have come to know him," but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we may be sure that we are in him:

I am writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.

As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, abide in him.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.